Anchor for flashings



E. Blaas/wu. ANCHOR FOB FLASHINGS.A 'APPLICATION FILED MAL29. I9IB.

1,318,347, l Patented 0@t.14,1919.

l Afl EUGENE BIERSACI-I, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

ANCHOR FOR FLASHINGS.

Application filed March 29, 1918.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, EUGENE BIERSACH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Milwaukee, county of Milwaukee, and State of TWisconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements in Anchors for Flashings, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in anchors for flashings.

The object of my invention Iis to provide a more eiective anchor than those heretofore used without increasing the cost of manufacture; also to provide an anchor which may be stamped from sheet metal and Athus produced rapidly in any desired quantity at minimum cost; also to provide a form of anchor which may be readily driven into position without destruction of the retaining lip to be subsequently bent into engagement with the flashing.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a plan view of an anchor for flashings embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is a side view.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view drawn on line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a sectional view of a fragment of a building wall and its roof drawn to a plane exposing one of my improved anchors in position for use.

Like parts are identified by the same reference characters throughout the several views.

My improved anchor comprises a compound wedge having side margins tapered toward its inner end, and raised flanges or margins also tapering toward its inner end and in the direction of the base or body portion of the anchor. It is formed from a fiat piece of sheet metal cut to the contour indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1 and then struck up to form a channel-shaped member having a base 1 and raised flanges 2 with a fiat tongue 3 at one end provided with forwardly tapering margins and a projecting lip 4 at the other end preferably having rounded margins as shown.

The flanges 2 converge in the direction of the tongue 3 along lines co-incident with the side margins of the tongue 3 and the upper margin of which flange 2 extends downwardly in the direction of the base 1 to the junction of these flanges with the tongue 3, whereby the base 1 and tongue 3 comprise a wedge shaped member having wedge shaped marginal flanges terminating in Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 14, 1919.

serial No. 225,547.

points at the front end of the base 1, z'. e., at its junction with the tongue 3.

The material of which my improved anchor is composed is sufficiently flexible to allow the lip 4 to .be bent at right angles to the base A1 after the anchor has been driven into position for use. The rear ends of the flanges 2 afford a means whereby the anchor may be driven into position without distorting the lip 4.

n use, a recess 6 may be formed between bricks 'in a portion of the wall projecting above the roof of the building and the sheet metal dashing 7 may have its outer margin 8 bent at right angles to the vertical portion and inserted in this recess, after which the anchor may also be inserted in the recess above the portion 8 of the fiashing and driven into position as shown in Fig. 4. The anchor is preferably made of suflicient length to extend beyond the inserted `portion 8 of the flashing and it may be driven into the mortar or other material composing this portion of the wall of the building beyond the recesses previously formed if the material will permit. When the anchor is being driven into place, the wedge-shaped flanges 2 will cut into the material above the recess, and owing t0 their inclined upper margins, the anchor will be pressed downwardly with great force upon the inserted portion 8 of the flashing'. After the. anchor has been driven into the wall until all portions thereof are embedded except the lip 4, the latter may be bent downwardly against the vertical portion 7 of the dashing as also shown in Fig. 4, whereby the flashinjg is held in position not only by the downward pressure of the anchor base 1 upon the portion 8, but also by the down turned lip 4 upon the outer surface of the vertical portion 7. As above stated, the ends of the flanges 2 adjacent tov the l-ip 4 may be utilized as shoulders to facilitate driving the wedge into position. This is also true of the rounded shoulders on the base at the respective sides of the lip 4. All of the shoulders are in the planes along which the driving pressure is exerted, and therefore the anchor can be readily driven into position without distorting the lip. This -is of considerable importance, for the reason that an undistorted lip can be readily bent into a position to securely hold'the flashing.

I claim.

1. An anchor for fiashings, comprising a and the base being extended beyond said shoulder to constitute a lip, said anchor being composed of sheet metal cut and struck up at the sides to form said wedge-shaped side flanges, and the material being suit ciently flexible to permit the lip to be bent downwardlyjupon the vertical portion off the flashing after the other portions of the Copies of this patent may vbe obtained for anchor have been driven into a wall above the liashing, substantially Yas described.

2. The combination with the wall of a building provided with a sheet metal flash- .ing having one margin inserted in a recess of said wall, of an anchor for the flashing embedded in. said wall above the inserted portion of the flashing and constituting a vcompound wedge'having a b ase portion in Ypressure relation to the flashing-and raised lflanges provided with upper margins in pressure relation to the material composing the wall, said base being also provided with a lip projecting downwardly and engaging the outer surface oi the exposed portion of the iiashing, substantially as described.

Y3. rAn anchor wedge for lashings, com prising a niece of sheet metal struck up to provide a fiat base tapered toward one end, and4 shouldered at the other end, with an intermediate lip adapted to be bent downwardly between the shoulders, said base having upwardly extending side flanges, each tapering toward the base adjacent to the narrow end thereof, and said shoulders, t0-

ilanges, being adapted 'to receive driving impacts in the planes of the hase and side iianges respectively, whereby the anchor may be driven into position without disturbing said lip, and the lip subsequently bent down to engage the upturned portion of a flange.

-In testimony whereof I ailix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

EUGENE BIERSACH.

Witnesses GUsTAvn A. DICK, .Louis DICK.

ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner Vof Patents,l Washington, D. C.

gether with the raised ends of -the side 

